Hello and welcome to the Wednesday January 10th

2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Mower. Today we're talking about Tesla,

possibly partnering with Ney Owen on another battery pack project.

Tesla stock closed down on Tuesday 0.81% to $333.69 as compared to the NASDAQ up 0.09

percent. Supercharger network update we are still at 1,136 supercharging

locations.

In the news today, Bloomberg is reporting that Ney Owen is again interested in working

with Tesla for another big battery pack project in Australia.

Ney Owen is the French Renewable Energy Company that Tesla worked with on the South Australian Battery

Pack project, and they recently announced that they'll be working with Tesla again on a smaller

battery pack project in Victoria in Australia.

Now Ney Owen's head of wind development for Australia, Garth Huron, is saying, quote,

we are looking to do a very large battery as there is a lot of need for electricity storage

up in Queensland."

He also said that the success of the Battery Pack project in South Australia has, quote,

really opened up our thinking with respect to large scale storage and has been a great success for us."

Based on the partnership so far I would be shocked if Tesla did not get this project.

In terms of the scale of the project all that we really know is that it is potentially larger than the South Australian Battery

Pack project, which has a power capacity of 100 megawatts.

From the Bloomberg report, they said that this project would be able to power 57,000 homes.

So from that, it's not exactly clear how that would translate to the battery power

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